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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1925
Page
9
The article surveys Hispaniola with Haiti and the Dominican Republic framing a history of rich resources, sugar and crops, colonial rule, pirate era disruption, and post revolutionary turmoil. It notes natural wealth, mountainous interiors, and coastal cities where power struggles and foreign loans shaped governance, leading to American intervention in 1915.
A Manchester Guardian commentary notes shocking entries in Somerset House birth registries. It cites names like Bodica Basher Happy Jiggins and Judas Iscariot Burto, questioning how such odd, even hateful labels survive. It compares English and American registries, suggesting similar oddities across cities like New York and Boston.
Fragmentary notes describe horses outfitted with improvised snowshoe boards mounted to their feet. The devices, called snowshoes, were used to aid traversal in deep snow while animals carried materials for highway construction over the mountains.
The piece warns that combustible roofs are fire hazards increasing losses and spreading flames to nearby structures. It cites that cities and towns adopt fire safe regulations and stresses educating builders and homeowners as the best preventive measure, especially where restrictions are lacking.
Ninety nine cities in two states report one or more platoon schools under work-study play arrangement. Wheeling West Virginia nears completion of a platoon school building and will open its first platoon school. Ellwood Pennsylvania adopts platoon organization in all grade schools. Memphis Tennessee Eaton Ohio Fairfield West Virginia and Waltham Massachusetts eye future adoption. Over the past year the Interior Department Bureau of Education has received inquiries from every state save three about the platoon plan.
Planning for future garden cities begins outside Houston with Garden Villas on Telephone Road. The 2300 acre project envisions a self contained community with water supply sewers electricity parks and a civic center. Bounded by bayou scenery on one side and prairie to the Gulf breezes on the other. Streets radiate to parks and civic hub mirroring Washington design.
Shingles on new homes are often painted or stained to show individuality. Variegated roof coloring in greens, blues, browns, and purples blends softly with cream or white exteriors, adding brightness and character to otherwise drab houses.
Ida M Thomas reflects on a gardener who plows plants and weeds with hoe and spade under sun rain and air. The poet praises the steward of the soil who toils to transform earth into garden, declaring it wonderful to partner with God in tilling the earth and turning heavy sod.
A period-advert speech extols home ownership over dividends, praising the pride and contentment of a man who provides shelter for his family, implying personal fulfillment beyond financial gains.
Mrs John T Acle of New York and Boston chartered an airplane to bring Fernandéz the London beauty expert to a hunting lodge in Scotland. He arrived at 8 a.m. wired back to London and returned by 8 p.m. to complete her dramatic hair bob.
A historical sketch of Donald Smith later Lord Strathcona, whose service to the Hudson’s Bay Company spanned decades from exile in Labrador to governor. The piece frames the company’s far flung power as a political force from the Great Lakes to the Arctic, with a harsh sending of workers as a soldierlike discipline.
Publisher George Doran of New York comments on the surge of spicy memoirs by celebrities. He jokes about writers trained from childhood and recalls a London anecdote of a celebrity offered daily volumes. He quips that a New York publisher advised to double any offer and write the book himself.
In New York Mrs Langdon Kent argues the modern domestic shirks work for high pay. A friend seeking a cook recalls a self asserted novice demanding top wages, claiming the work is harder without experience. The anecdote highlights perceived servant ineptitude and wage expectations.
Ammonium nitrate helps grasses use phosphorus in soil but is not ideal for sandy soils. In sand the plant splits it into ammonia and nitric acid and absorbs more ammonia. The acid accumulates, quickly souring the soil. It is advised to test soil type before applying ammonium nitrate fertilizer.
Detroit Free Press recounts a misread remark by Rev Carter Page cf Anosville during a religious argument at the Scopes trial in Dayton. The exchange compares unbelievers to a man whose wife asks for money and ends with a quick wallet draw offering ten dollars.
English countryside spots will be free of unsightly ads after an amending act received royal assent, closing a loophole in the 18 year old advertisements regulation act. The change strengthens landscape protection by making the regulation operative again.
Illuminated maps are now used in the Avondale public School in Cincinnati Ohio. The maps are mounted to backlight and each is equipped with a set of switches that can be adjusted as the geography lesson progresses.
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